how to forbid programs from installing on c?

Wiggster

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Aug 16, 2013
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Hi, i have a friend who recently bought a brand new netbook, and it came with windows 8. however she has heard horrible things about it and wanted windows 7. i installed windows 7 on it, however the C: Drive, only has 24 gb as it is a small SSD meant to be a system drive only. is there any way for me to stop programs from installing on C? and essentially idiot proofing it? so all programs will install on her D drive? i already went in and set up the default installation folder and download folder be on the D drive, but apparently some things are still installing on the c drive.

I remember being in college, and each computer had it's designated boot drive, that would boot into windows. then it would hook up to a network and access our individual hard drives that were stored somewhere else. is it possible for me to do something similar? and make her C drive invisible to her? but still make the computer boot from it? while everything else would install on her D drive only?
 
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I'll say it again...a 24gb SSD is not large enough.

Turn off hibernation
Reduce the pagefile to almost nothing
Redirect all the places under Libraries to somewhere else
Redirect Downloads to somewhere else
Disallow restore points
Clear out old Windows Updates.

But the fact still remains....a 24GB drive is too small.

USAFRet

Titan
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During the install of a new application, select Custom or Advanced instead of 'Default'.
Choose where you want it to go.

For Documents (Docs/Music/Pictures/etc) you can create new locations on another drive, and default the
Documents" save location to that other location.
 

USAFRet

Titan
Moderator
I'll say it again...a 24gb SSD is not large enough.

Turn off hibernation
Reduce the pagefile to almost nothing
Redirect all the places under Libraries to somewhere else
Redirect Downloads to somewhere else
Disallow restore points
Clear out old Windows Updates.

But the fact still remains....a 24GB drive is too small.
 
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